Cussler, Clive

Author Clive Cussler discusses his real-life adventures as founder of the National Underwater and Marine Agency, focusing on twelve incidents in which the agency sought and found sunken ships, each prefaced by a creative dramatization of the ship and the way it met its end.

Ten-year-old twins Casey and Lacey fly an enchanted, antique airplane, named the "Vin Fiz," across the United States and have several daring adventures along the way. Includes historical notes on the real "Vin Fiz," the name of the airplane that made the first transcontinental flight in 1911.

Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala are off on a high-stakes adventure when the NUMA team is assigned to find the link between a missing top-secret, government-sponsored undersea lab that had been testing viral weaponry and an attack on a bathysphere near Bermuda that nearly killed Zavala and everyone else aboard.

Captain Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the "Oregon," while searching for a crashed satellite in the Argentine jungle, make a shocking discovery that leads to further revelations involving a Chinese curse hundreds of years old.

When the U.S. secretary of state's plane crashes en route to a summit meeting in Libya, the CIA hires pirate Juan Cabrillo and his crew to look for her, and when the crew of the "Oregon" discovers plans that are connected to centuries-old Islamic scrolls, they are thrown into a crucial naval battle against terrorists.

While working for the National Underwater and Marine Agency, Dirk Pitt and Al Giordino uncover the deadly plans of a Mongolian mogul to deal oil to the Chinese and ruin the global market, and discover the scheme is linked to the treasures of Genghis Khan.

A radiation leak exposes a plot by the Japanese to take over the world and sends Dirk Pitt to the bottom of the ocean to launch a daring counterattack.

Juan Cabrillo and his team of operatives aboard the technologically advanced "Oregon," rush to save the day when a crazed industrialist plots to unleash a wave of terror on the world, beginning with the theft of a radioactive meteorite that fell to Earth 50,000 years ago.

A deadly plague is killing dolphins and seals in the Weddell Sea and has now extended its reach to claim the lives of humans. Dirk Pitt, researcher with the National Underwater and Marine Agency must find the source of the plague and head off a disaster that will claim the lives of millions of people and animals.